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On the Record...Online with Globe and Mail Communities Editor Mathew Ingram


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Globe and Mail Communities Editor Mathew Ingram goes On the Record...Online about how he used Twitter, Flickr and Wikipedia to follow the recent terrorist incident in Mumbai, the role he sees these tools playing in the news gathering process and why Twitter is just as good as mainstream media at creating a first draft of history.
Mathew Ingram is a blogger and the communities editor at The Globe and Mail, a national daily newspaper in Canada, where he blogs about new media and the Web. His position is aimed at helping make it easier for readers to interact with the paper, its writers and content. Ingram is a former technology writer and columnist, and started blogging as a way of pursuing his interest in new media.
Show notes:
3:15 - Ingram on his recent blog post referencing Om Malik and immediate media like video camera reports through Qik.
4:29 - Ingram on his co-workers adoption of new media and emerging tools like TweetDeck and tag clouds.
5:35 - Ingram on whether Twitter is a good way for an organization spread the word about itself.
6:44 - Ingram on what mainstream media can do that social media cannot.
8:30 - Ingram on how he consumes new media content through Blog Search, Wikipedia, Flicker and YouTube.
10:02 - Ingram on whether different social media channels are best for different information.
11:48 - Ingram on the opinion of Shel Holtz of For Immediate Release regarding whether or not old media adapts.
13:25 - Ingram on whether he tracks the paid PR newswires in addition to social media.
16:04 - Ingram on whether or not daily newspapers should get out of the breaking news business.
18:06 - Ingram on how journalism can take the time to verify the news coming out of Twitter and publish it in a timely manner.
21:05 - Ingram on the accuracy of mainstream media and the immediacy of new media.
23:07 - Ingram on passion in journalism vs. passion in blogging.
24:48 - End
Eric Schwartzman is the founder of online newsroom management service iPressroom and creator of the New Media PR Boot Camp, which has been attended by over a thousand public relations and marketing executives from private, public, government and nonprofit sectors.
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